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Poll: Are you an outtie or an innie?
Gates In	78 / 44%
Gates Out	65 / 36%
Both In and Out	12 / 7%
Neither... I don't wear a harness	3 / 2%
Pancakes	21 / 12%
179 total votes

kachoong

Apr 1, 2009, 6:06 PM
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This hasn't been thrown around for about four or five years so I thought I'd bring it up again, but this time as a poll.

Do you clip biners to your harness gear loops with gates facing out or gates facing in?

(This post was edited by kachoong on Apr 1, 2009, 6:16 PM)

bill413

Apr 1, 2009, 6:09 PM
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For carrying / racking or for clipping in?

kachoong

Apr 1, 2009, 6:17 PM
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I meant clipping to your gear loops... (edited)

patmay81

Apr 1, 2009, 6:19 PM
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I can't imagine trying to fuss around to get anything off my harness with the gate out. ok, I can imagine it, but I imagine it would be a lot more cumbersome than just unclipping. You'd have to unclip and twist, and hope that the gear didn't slip off the biner... no, definitely gates in.

moose_droppings

Apr 1, 2009, 6:27 PM
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Gates in-opening towards the top?or bottom?

Laugh

jeepnphreak

Apr 1, 2009, 6:40 PM
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gates out

cush

Apr 1, 2009, 6:55 PM
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patmay81 wrote:

I'm the exact opposite. i just got a draw and tried to clip it to my harness to see which way. when i tried to clip it with the gate facing in i had to unclip the gate with my index and that just felt awkward. for me it's much more natural feeling to clip them gates out, open them with my thumb and then do whatever i need to do with it

dlintz

Apr 1, 2009, 7:02 PM
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Gates out but pancakes....definitely IN!!

d.

Tipton

Apr 1, 2009, 7:05 PM
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moose_droppings wrote:

Gates in-opening towards the top?or bottom?

Laugh

Towards the top man are you crazy?!? Towards the bottom and you risk backclipping your gear and falling to your death.

Jeez, noobs these days... Laugh

patmay81

Apr 1, 2009, 7:05 PM
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dlintz wrote:

but pancakesd.

hahaha butt pancakes hahahaha... ok, kind of bevus-and-butthead-esque, but I couldn't help it Wink

krusher4

Apr 1, 2009, 7:08 PM
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are we talking about Bill Gates? ummmm Gate's out I'm a Mac user.

no_email_entered

Apr 1, 2009, 7:28 PM
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moose_droppings wrote:

Gates in-opening towards the top?or bottom?

Laugh

bottom------

----but only to rack nuts on a wiregate

sbaclimber

Apr 1, 2009, 7:43 PM
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Definitely gates-out on the harness.
On my chest harness I tend to rack gates in though...

kriso9tails

Apr 1, 2009, 8:10 PM
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In for draws, out for gear.

lena_chita
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Apr 1, 2009, 8:30 PM
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I always rack them with gates in when I rack up for climbing, but when I clean a route they usually go back on the harness with the gates out for some reason.

notapplicable

Apr 1, 2009, 9:13 PM
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kriso9tails wrote:

In for draws, out for gear.

freak

apeman_e

Apr 2, 2009, 2:44 PM
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always facing in. unless they're facing out.

caleb_danner

Apr 2, 2009, 4:21 PM
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krusher4 wrote:

are we talking about Bill Gates? ummmm Gate's out I'm a Mac user.

definitely with you on this one

patmay81

Apr 2, 2009, 4:27 PM
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I'm really amazed that so many people rack with gates out, it just seems like it would be cumbersome and awkward. I guess I'll have to play around with it a little.

dingus

Apr 2, 2009, 4:32 PM
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For you outties do you prefer erect gear loops or the droopy ones that hang down toward your knees?

I prefer snappy, erectile gear loops but I'm an innie. Makes all the diff, for innie clippin, having gthat erectile gear loop. I think a lot of the outties started out outting because of droopy gear loops (using the nose of the biner to lever the gear loop up just natuurally lends itself to outie clipping)

The Grand Unified Theory of Erectile Gear Loops and Sport Draw Gear Loop Clipping Preferences

DMT

kachoong

Apr 2, 2009, 4:49 PM
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patmay81 wrote:

I'm really amazed that so many people rack with gates out, it just seems like it would be cumbersome and awkward. I guess I'll have to play around with it a little.

Actually I'm amazed how many innies there are! It does look about even though. I hate clipping with the gates in... feels unnatural to me.

I remember when climbing with Philbox that he had his right side as outties and the left side as innies. You still rack like that, Phil? Wink

dingus wrote:

Actually the last harness I have is an Adjama and the loops were especially erectile when I bought it. But I found that to just make it easier to clip with an outtie motion.

shoo

Apr 2, 2009, 4:57 PM
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dingus wrote:

That's a really insightful observation. I'm an outtie. All of my harnesses have had relatively floppy gear loops. Never thought about that before.

MikeSaint

Apr 2, 2009, 4:58 PM
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What about belly buttons?

kachoong

Apr 2, 2009, 5:00 PM
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MikeSaint wrote:

What about belly buttons?

I was waiting for someone to post up that... honestly thought it would be sooner than this. Wink

the_climber

Apr 2, 2009, 5:04 PM
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dingus wrote:

Pretty much the reason why it depends on what harness I'm using... different gear loops, different requirments.

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